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Have you noticed how there is something always ‘wrong’. No matter how good things are, something will soon go awry. All this is obvious, I suppose. That is what makes the News, news. What is less obvious is how the perception and experience of good fortune and misfortune are complimentary, as chapter 58 puts it, […]

Good enough is good enough, and naturally so. After all, this is how nature works—step by step. Surely, this is the sentiment expressed in chapter 64, A thousand mile journey begins below the feet. We now also call this evolution. Nevertheless, I constantly see people pushing a ‘perfect’ ideal of how something should be or […]

First, watch this short video of ABC’s George Stephanopoulos interviewing NBA star Dennis Rodman about his visit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. George and Dennis exemplify two profoundly different ways of seeing the world. In this case, each is personifying somewhat the extreme, which really helps highlight the models: One is more idealistic […]

A favorite thought experiment of mine is pondering the hows-and-whys of the world. There are mountains of geological and archeological information to consider. Fortunately, the fog lifts a bit, and I see a little deeper. The difficulty is that a mountain of details always gets in the way of the view. You know the problem… […]

Much in the Taoist worldview marches to the beat of a different drummer. So much so that if one has to ask “How so?”, one may not be truly ready to know ‘how so’. Observing life from a symptoms point of view always pulls me to look deeper, so here goes… Marching to the beat […]

The BBC aired an excellent six part series on India. The other night we watched Part 2. (See, BBC The story of India (Part 2). The first half hour retells the life of Buddha. Incorporating present day video footage of India with the story makes this telling especially good. The end of the segment stood out […]

The Pope’s recent comments on suffering struck me. (See: Pope Benedict stumped by Japanese girl’s question about suffering). Briefly, a young girl asked him, “Why do children have to be so sad?” Benedict admitted: “I also have the same questions: why is it this way? Why do you have to suffer so much while others […]

This recent CBS Sunday Morning “Fast Draw” segment, The Truth about Lies demonstrates why many things most people believe turn out not to be true. It is sobering and humbling to see how blind and deaf we can be. Oh how the power of belief walks all over clear and irrefutable evidence. What accounts for […]

Why God? I have not heard this question asked much… if at all (1). Debate focuses mostly on whose God is best, the nature of God, or does God even exist. Asking, “Why do we believe in God” is more of a zoological approach to this issue. That is the place to begin; after all, […]

The November issue of Science News, Beyond Spooky, was dedicated to “quantum weirdness”, as they put it (1). I have long had deep affection for this side of physics. Frankly though, the weirder thing for me is how, despite nature’s bio-hoodwink, it is possible to see more than just the tip-of-the-iceberg of reality. Biology requires […]